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Proposals to link Didcot with Wittenham Clumps as part of a plan for a 1,500 acre country park have been scrapped.

There was little support for a formal country park following an eight-week public consultation on plans proposed by South Oxfordshire District Council.

Countryside officer Dominic Lamb released details of the final report last week.

He said: "There was a lot of concern over the Clumps as a country park."

Instead, the council says it wants a network of green spaces dotted around the edge of the town.

More than 270 acres of new woodland and meadow space would be designated to the north and south of the town with 30km of paths or 'greenways' connecting them.

Mr Lamb said: "Everyone had different ideas about what a country park would be. We are now looking at a series of linked green spaces all round Didcot."

Billie Dowse, 70, was one of a number of people in Little Wittenham who feared the country park would turn the Clumps into a theme park.

She said: "Larkrise to Candleford, yes, but Little Wittenham to Didcot, no.

"I don't want to be linked up to Didcot with a park."

5:56pm Sunday 27th April 2008

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